Biblical Counseling in the Local Church
Deepak Reju, pastor of biblical of counseling at Capitol Hill Baptist Church, faces a wide swath counseling of challenges in a church with about a thousand attending every Sunday. Pornography is the...
View ArticleFearfully and Wonderfully Made, Woefully and Tragically Fallen
Evangelicals have a significant stake in the decision-making nature of human beings. Terms like belief and unbelief, obedience and disobedience, are part of a biblical grammar of responsibility....
View ArticleOvercoming the Culture of Shame
My wife and I looked so good together. We shared the same sense of humor. We came from families that each valued marriage and togetherness. We were also both Christians. But my addiction to pornography...
View ArticleCounseling the (Really) Hard Cases
Sexual abuse. Schizophrenia. Anorexia. Porn. Postpartum depression. Paralyzing fear. Bipolar disorder. Obsessive-compulsive disorder. Dissociative identity disorder. Addiction. Adultery. Homosexuality....
View ArticlePsychiatric Medication and the Image of God
Watch any daytime talk show with an expert medical guest or flip through Time magazine’s colorful diagrams, and you’ll see that the latest emphasis in neurology, the brain’s causal influence on human...
View ArticleHow God Continues to Redeem His Bride
The dawn of a new day pulls you out of your much-needed sleep. Your mind immediately replays the various conversations and teaching associated with a jam-packed Sunday of ministry. Against your better...
View ArticleNaked and Unashamed
Imagine getting fired as the CEO of a company, in front of all your employees, by your own son. This is similar to the experience David lived through that gave us Psalm 3. His son Absalom conspired...
View ArticleHow to Counsel as a Friend
When we hear the word counseling, we often think of a formal setting and professional atmosphere. Although the biblical counseling movement of the last few decades has done much to restore counseling...
View ArticleWhat Not to Say to Someone Who’s Suffering
“Job’s friends were great counselors,” Tullian Tchividjian observes, “until they opened their mouth.” Tchividjian sat down with Paul Tripp and Dave Furman to discuss things you shouldn’t to say to a...
View Article‘Non-Shepherding’ Pastors: Option or Oxymoron?
Are “non-shepherding” pastors ever legitimate? You know, ministers who, due to other commitments (such as preaching) abstain from counseling and visitation and other life-on-life ministry during the...
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